Samsung has just confirmed that it is holding a press conference on 14th March 2013 to launch its new Samsung Galaxy S4 in New York.

Are you excited to hear about this phone?

PA3 has just been released for the Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4, Nexus 7, or Nexus 10. This is a custom rom that has a few unique features.

Paranoid Android’s defining characteristic is what they call Hybrid Engine. This is not a tablet mode rom it is a rom that allows you to select both dpi and layout on a per-app basis. Rather than being forced to modify the look of your entire device, you can optimize your applications to what works best. Neat.

A new and important feature in the official release of PA3 is the PIE control system. What this allows one to do is to disable onscreen buttons and use a swipe gesture to access various common functions, thereby freeing up valuable screen real estate. In addition, per app color, another significant feature in PA3 allows you set system UI colors on a per-app basis. So for example if you want a black system bar for your launcher, but a blue one for Facebook? No problem.

PA3 also corrects for the device’s gamma issues to give it the punch the IPS panel deserves.

5 years ago I might have been interested in something like this. Nowadays, I just don’t have the time, and I just want mu phone to work straight out of the box. If you do fancy this head over to XDA Developers.

Today’s latest offers are as follows –

Apple – Sonic Jump – a superb free game, similar to Doodle Jump in concept but Sega style

Amazon – Draw a Stickman Epic – an reasonable offering from amazon today

Google Play – Smash – the pilot of the Spielberg musical is free today.

Stay tuned for tomorrow for the next lot of offers and freebies.

Today’s line up is as follows.

Apple – free TV show – BBC Sherlock – A Study in Pink

Amazon – Edge Extended Game for free

Google – Money Trees by Kendrick Lamar – free song.

Not a bad offering today from the big 3 superpowers.

The ZTE Nubia Z5 is ZTE’s new smartphone to say to the world, look we do great quality handsets, and make them look beautifully.

The ZTE Nubia 5 features a 1.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon S4 chipset, NFC, Blietooth 4, 2GB of ram, a 5″ 1080p display with a pixel density of 443ppi, 13MP camera, 32GB of built-in storage, full connectivity options, Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean and a 2300 mAh battery will power the ZTE Nubia 5.

Also really striking is that fact it is only 7.6mm thin and has the world’s thinnest bezel at 2.67mm. It’s weight is only 127g. It is aluminium unibody that looks stunning. It fact the phone was designed by Stefan Giovannoni.

And if an aluminium unibody doesn’t rock your boat, it will be released later in titanium.

I really hope this one comes to the UK.

Following hot on the heels of the available free gifts, Apple has Classical Goals game for free, Google still is showing a special reduction on a film “it’s a wonderful life”, but Amazon has gone nuts with several free apps including Tunein Pro.